It used to be that sometime in November that Canadians could flatten out the snow behind the house, let the water hose run for a few hours, and get a nice flat sheet of ice. But warm weather is ruining that Canadian tradition: the backyard skating rink. It is also helping a company that sells artificial rinks that cost about the same as a swimming pool.

Boston Red Sox fans wearing T-shirts that say "Yankees Suck" will be asked to turn them inside-out before entering Fenway Park for this weekend's showdown series between the Red Sox and their hated rivals from New York. Alert the fashion police.

Police arrested eight men and seized half a ton of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer compound used in the Oklahoma City bombing, in raids by hundreds of officers one of the biggest anti-terrorism operations in Britain since the Sept. 11 attacks.

A blustery snowstorm combined with painfully cold arctic air descended on the Northeast on Thursday, trapping New York-bound ferries in the ice, grounding hundreds of flights and prompting warnings to bundle up from Maine to Pennsylvania.